Although online activity can support partially stand-in for meeting places, using computer mediated communication and digital media does not represent participation in exact sense of “civic participation”.

Yochai Benkler describes “commons-based peer-production” as “groups of individuals [that] successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals...”

World population compared to the number of microchips globally. “Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives.” -- Mark Weiser, 1996